Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1887-11-03
BURIED IN RUINS.

BURIED In RUINS.
ANExPLos1oN OF FGAsoL1NE WRECKS
a TENEMENT AT ST. LOUIS.
TWELVE PERSONS BURIED BENEATH
THEBURNING DEBRIS. S8
One Family Entirely Out of Existence---A
Scene of Awful Confusion and Fright
= A List of the Dead and Wounded.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 2.-An explosion of
gasoline in the rear Of the cellar Of Mi
chael Newman's grocery store, No. 13
South Fourteenth street, at $3.50 a. m.
lifted the ,two-story building from it's
/ found dation and dropped it back again in
ssaSmass, bsseath which were buried sew
enteen persons. They were: Michael
Newman, aged 50 years; Mrs. Annie
Newman. aged 40 years; Miss Mamie
Newman, aged !5 years; John Newman,
aged 16 years; Nellie Newman, aged Is
years; Kate Newman, aged II years; Ed
die Newman, aged Is years; Charles De-
we're, Mrs. Charles Devere, Miss Hattie
Brown, of Columbus, KY, bruised
about the lower limbs; Oh aries Eifferd,
Miss Patty Bryant, AIRS Beasley-
The messenger of death had scarcely
wrecked the place before devasting five
swept through the cuins and seemed bent
Z ;,,fo o1 fTho Of
that, had swooped down upon the ruins
batfled the efforts Of the fire1nen, who
had begun the first systematic work, and
for few minutes bid fair to spread into
adjoining property. The building was d
two story brick All the up stairs was
occupied by tenements.
The force of the explosion was terrific,
the entire block of buildings across the
alley from the building in which the ex
plosion took place were quilted by the
blast. The Newman block, crushed in,
was covered by the root, which had set
tied down upon the ruins and formed a
barrier through which the rescuers had
to cut q way. Beams and walls impeded
progress, and threatening walls on either
side overhung ready to crush the gallant
men who pressed to the spot where calls
for help directed them. These were soon
removed, Ihnd in the debris were revealed
the mangled forms of the grocery
mans family. Two ladies, Newman's
daughters, were first removed. Mamie,
8 %, years OF age, was still
alive, but mangled by the timbers' and
charred by fire, was beyond the hope Of
recovery. Her sister Nellie was the next
recovered. Neither scan survive. The
rest ofthe Newman family were dead
Some sat upright and others were
doubled in their beds. Life had evidently
fled when they were wrapped in slum
ber In the building lived Chanles De-
we're, "a travelling salesman, and his wife,
Visiting them was Miss Hattie Brown of
Columbus, KY. She was badly injured
but t.miraculously,es death, the only
person who passed through the horrible
ordeal and lives to tall the story of
escape.
She awoke to find herself pinned down
by heavy tinabers against O. wall.
On one side g. wall of fire reached to the
sky, while the clash of tinbers and the
clatter of iron caused storm of danger
gerous missiles to fly about her head.
For q long time she batted desperately
to free herself, and at last just when she
had given up in despair, the ruins settled
down and the Dverhaneing timbers were
raised from the limbs which were fettered
in the deadly embrace.
With an effort she gained her feet and
for some time wandered among the burn
ing and smoking ruins until she fell into
an open space When she came to she
found herself in an alley way, thence she
ran to neighbors where she was sup.
piled with clothing and returned to the
frightful scene.
Mr.. Bryant, with her daughter, Miss
Patty, and with them two boarders,
Charles clifford and Mrs. Beasley, were
buried so deeply in the debris that the
search for them was given up until 9th
,ers were removed.
An unknown man of 40 years was
found in the debris and removed to the
morgue.
Besides those injured in this building
were many persons in the neighberhood
more or less cut and bruised from the
flying splinters and bricks.
The wagons sent to the scence broMght
skilled attendants and many physicians
were on hand as soon as their services
could be used. Nothing was spared to
relieve the sufferers and as soon as they
were removed from the debris they were
removed immediately to the dispensary.
The 1iremen worked at the fallen build
ings regardless Of adjacent walls which
lowered with impending danger. With
daylight came the word that all the vic
Tins had been removed.
EIGHT KILLED, THREE WOUNDED.
The corrected list of the dead and
wounded by the explosion is eight dead
and three seriously wounded. Six others
who lived in the building, reported miss
ing, have been found, either uninjured or
badly bruised. Five Of the Newman
family are dead. Mamie is horribly man
gled and burned and beyond all hope of
recovery. Nellie lies in a terrible con-
dition, but may recover. Charles N. De-
we're and wife and Mrs. Agnez Beasley
are dead. Miss Hattie Bryant is badly
bruised.
A Prosperous Colony.
ST. PAUL, Nov. 2.-L. d. Dodge, rep
resenting the English colony in Hettin-
ger county, North Dakota, was in St.
Paul. He says that the colony has en-
ioyed much prosperity and is growing in
that direction at every revolution of the
wheel of time. He anticipates large